The Orientals

* “The Orientals are—well, discreet’s not really the word, but they aren’t like the Negroes and the Jews, they don’t push in where they’re not wanted.”

Didion, Joan. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

* “It is not that Punahou is not still the school of the Island power elite; it is. “There will always be room at Punahou for those children who belong here,” Dr. John Fox, headmaster since 1944, assured alumni in a recent bulletin. But where in 1944 there were 1,100 students and they had a median IQ of 108, now there are 3,400 with a median IQ of 125. Where once the enrollment was ten percent Oriental, now it is a fraction under thirty percent.”

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How Often Do You Regret A Day Spent Working Hard?

I find that when I get to the end of a long work day, I rarely feel bad about it.

On the other hand, when I get to the end of a day where I haven’t worked (aside from the Sabbath or a Jewish holiday), I often feel a measure of disquiet that I haven’t used my time as well as I should have.

On Monday, Christmas, I set myself a goal of working on my Fourth and Fifth Step. In particular, I wanted to compile a harm inventory — a listing of ways I’ve needlessly hurt others. I ended up spending 10 minutes on this. I just got stuck. My back hurt me so I wanted to limit the time I spent sitting (I don’t yet have a standing desk at home because I typically work 50-60 hours a week and don’t spend much time sitting at home) so I went for a walk and ran into a friend and I ended up walking him home because I so enjoyed our conversation and it was the only significant human interaction I had all day. I managed to stave off the bad feeling by walking in the sun and listening to 12-Step lectures. I notice that listening to good 12-Step talks always changes my state in a positive direction. I literally get sober and I usually follow it up by taking some action such as cleaning my room or car or dusting off my book shelf or cleaning the bathroom or organizing my closet. I never feel bad after spending time cleaning and organizing.

What else did I do on Christmas? I watched the final four episodes of Season Two of El Chapo, the superb Univision production on Netflix. Early the next morning, I had an El Chapo inspired horrific nightmare and staggered into work hung over.

Aside from Monday, I’ve worked all week and spent my spare time, aside from listening to 12-Step meetings and talks, listening to the audio version of the novel War and Peace and listening to Youtube lectures on Clausewitz.

I love these Goals Pages:

Preparing to Define My Goals – What is my Vision?
Do I have a Vision for my life?
If yes, how will my goals emerge out of that vision?
If not, how will clarity of Vision help me to define my individual goals?
How will I define my vision?
Removing Obstacles:
Am I willing for life to be different? What does willingness look like, how do I
express willingness?
Am I willing to let go of all attachments I’ve had to suffering?
Am I willing to let go of any and all resistance I have had to being happy and
prospering? (if not, what is in my way?)
What would it look like (feel like, sound like) if I let go of all resistance to
happiness and good fortune?
Am I willing to let God (as I understand God) show me – or to see – a new way of
living?
Am I willing to enjoy my life? What will enjoyment look like?
Am I willing to be different, to be the change I wish to see, literally?
What will that change look like?
What are my goals?
Defining My Goals:
I will have goals for the different areas of my life — as I define those areas.
Examples: Overall vision, Earning (immediate earning or B-job and vision-based earning); Service;
Spirituality/Recovery; Self-Care (including Home Care); Family & Friends; Recreation/Play; Learning.
What do I define as the major areas of my life?
How does each area relate to my underearning?
GOALS PAGES
“We set goals to measure our progress and reward achievement”
I will write down my goals and I will be specific. I will separate each goal.
I will develop small action steps necessary to move toward, and achieve,
my goals.
Can I allow myself to go one step at a time?
Can I allow myself to take action in small time-frames (15, 20, 30 min.)?
Getting Ready for Action: Looking at all goals or one specific goal
Am I willing to accept help in achieving this goal from Source, God, Higher Power?
Am I willing to allow a spiritual solution, to transform my life around each issue or
goal? (if not, what is in my way?)
What other support will I need to follow through to completion?
What people do I know that can and will support my reaching my goals?
Who do I know that may not be able to support me in reaching my goals?
Who may actually be draining – and that perhaps I should avoid?
***
How will committing to take, and then taking, the action bless my life in positive
ways?
How will avoiding or not taking the action harm me?
What has been the payoff, I’ve been getting, for not taking or completing the
action(s)?
i.e. Getting to be right, to be a victim, to complain, addiction to familiarity with suffering,
fear of change, loss of identity who will I be without this condition, staying in the drama of
old communication and habit patterns that do not serve me, living in the problem instead of
living in the solution.
***
Am I willing to show up (do my part) and let go and let God?
Am I willing to let go of the need to know how it will happen (all the details)?
GOALS PAGES
“We set goals to measure our progress and reward achievement”
Am I willing to let go of the need to know the outcome?
How do I let go?
Am I willing to take a leap of faith and trust that I am in the care of God (as I define
or understand God) – and that God is with me every step of the way?
Am I willing to ask my Higher Power to remove my blocks and for the willingness
and strength to take and complete the necessary actions? (if not, what is in my way?)
How do I ask for help and guidance?
Getting Into Action:
Am I willing to put one foot in front of the other and take the next indicated step?
How will I do this?
Am I willing to bookend the action with someone in Underearners Anonymous?
What are the steps necessary to complete the action?
What is a realistic timeframe for completion of the action?
On what date will the action be complete?
***
What kinds of things would I enjoy as a reward for reaching a goal?
How will I reward myself each time I reach a goal or complete a major action?

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Top Ten Contributors To American Politics 2016

Friend: “Steyer is only one half Jewish and technically not a Jew at all. His mother is an Episcopalian. I do not think she converted or that Steyer was raised as a Jew. His wedding was officiated both by a Rabbi and an Episcopal priest.”

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The West Changes Direction On Immigration

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* I’m quite impressed with the dramatic change in direction pretty much everywhere in the West on the immigration issue.

First Brexit, then Trump, freed up discussion of immigration. What they exposed is the bankruptcy of the case for immigration: it comes down to nothing more than an accusation of racism in its opponents. Nothing more than pure taboo supports it. Every fact runs against it.

But taboos come and go. They can’t survive open challenge.

We have three more years of Trump, at the very least. I think we’ll end with a very different culture surrounding immigration from the one we started with.

* Despite having a strong leaning towards the left at times, the arrogant French (not really a put down) don’t seem to hate themselves, or their cultural legacy, in the same way the rest of the West does. BLM can only thrive when a significant portion of the majority population truly hates itself (culturally.)

* Bannon has pulled his endorsement of Paul Nehlen over his retweeting of cartoon that says “It’s ok to be white”. Bannon was never alt-right or even close, but he’s now virtue signaling big time to put space between himself and alt-right/white nationalism.

Bannon is a big supporter of Jewish tribalism and thinks blacks are prime candidates for civic nationalism, but whites who don’t hate themselves are beyond the pale for him.

* Reading the piece so you guys don’t have to: yes, saying that he’s reading CoC and it’s okay to be white is the extent of Nehlen’s inflammatory activity. You have to see it through a Jewish lens: if Nehlen had stolen Palestinian land or bombed a Palestinian neighborhood or shot a Palestinian kid, that’d be one thing, but reading books and tolerating whiteness is a whole ‘nother level.

* Nehlen had been on Fash The Nation during his first try at unseating Paul Ryan. I had found that odd and thought that it might have been a misstep on his part. Then he went on FTN a 2nd time and indicated that he was a regular listener.

I like that he memes. I do think that he should have stuck to #ItsOkToBeWhite. That hashtag is genius in that it’s very, very easy to defend in the eyes of normal people.

I’m not sure why he’s hitting the JQ so strongly, especially since his stance on the “fellows” is that he’s willing to respect them if they respect him. Sounds a bit like Ann Coulter’s stance, who just dog whistles her stance on the “fellows” and doesn’t shout it out.

* Why don’t progressive men and women executives hire all of these put-upon women at a discount price and crush the competition? There must be a veritable surfeit of talented women executives out there just dying to get their chance. Yet, no one seems willing to tap that ass – sorry, that well of talent.

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Mexico’s Congress Seems Oppressively White

More:

* Whites like Del Toro sit as a thin film at the top of Mexican society, much as Jews do in the US. In both cases, the .7-1.0 SD difference in IQ at the group level leads to several orders of magnitude of outsized influence.

It’s La Griffe’s smart-fraction theory through the lens of ethnic networking.

Del Toro the individual, who would be a despised conquistador in Chiapas, is a typical Hollywood/Manhattan courtier peddling crap that he knows will receive support and acclaim from the Ministry of Information.

* Bottom line, ‘the fringes’ are really the centers of power. They are the ones who cannot be criticized in any way, are the defacto Aristocracy, and do most of the censoring and controlling of society’s boundaries.

* Del Toro is one of those people, like James Whale, Tim Burton and David Cronenberg, who have a gift for design, but aren’t terribly good at storytelling.

* I think you hit Del Toro’s weakness on the nose – he’s spending hundreds of millions of dollars setting moods with visual design but without stories to match. The visual style can fool you into thinking there’s going to be a good film but it just doesn’t work out that way.

He also seems to have a fetish for inserting his own Manichean politics into his projects. Of course both Pan’s Labyrinth and Devil’s Backbone featured Francoists as the baddies. The Strain couldn’t resist making both the original Vampire a fan of the NAZIs and his adjutant an actual NAZI, and hitting you over the head with NAZI parallels to the vampires.

* Remember Mohamed Noor, the Minneapolis policeman who for unknown reasons shot and killed a nice Australian tourist when she tried to say something to his partner? Turns out he was hired after the city drastically lowered their standards for psychological screening in the name of diversity. Welp, turns out that those lowered standards are still keeping out too many vibrant applicants, so they are being lowered even further.

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